Marginally off topic but I’ve been charging up this rant since yesterday

Why is everyone suddenly touting the IRA as an historic investment in climate policy and ignoring the fact that much of the solar capacity being installed in the US is coming in the form of inexpensive Chinese manufactured panels that have to be imported from SE Asia to get around the tariffs that the Biden admin imposed on them. What the hell has happened to critical thinking?

Sure, every fractional degree counts and any action is better than no action, but the difference between electricity generated from natural gas in 2023 and 2022 was equivalent to all of our installed solar capacity in 2022. Growth in renewables is still supplementing growing demand rather than displacing fossil fuels and now everyone thinks we have oodles of time so long as we get on that trajectory.

Trump has been successful beyond the wildest dreams of The Powers that Be in tempering activism and getting people who should know better to content themselves with crumbs and I’ve never felt so discouraged.